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CIL:28774*  Cite 
Description

Spinning disk confocal time-lapse imaging of the first mitosis in a C. elegans embryo expressing GFP-histone and GFP-γ-tubulin (strain TH32). After finishing meiosis (not depicted), the female pronucleus migrates toward the male pronucleus (right side of the image, which is the embryo posterior), the chromosomes condense, and, after nuclear envelope breakdown, congress to the metaphase plate. Anaphase segregation of the chromosomes results in two equivalent nuclei. The video is ∼16 min long, and the frame is ∼30 µm top to bottom. DIC is shown on the left, and GFP is shown on the right. Images were acquired at 10-s intervals, and corresponding data are shown in Fig. 1 A from J Cell Biol. 2007 Mar 12;176(6):757-63. Epub 2007 Mar 5.

Technical Details

Images were acquired via a spinning disk confocal microscope (CSU10; McBain Instruments) mounted on an inverted microscope (TE2000e; Nikon). Strain TH32 coexpressing GFP-histone H2b and GFP–γ-tubulin was imaged using a 60× 1.4 NA plan Apo objective with 1.5× auxiliary magnification and a cooled CCD camera (Orca ER; Hamamatsu) binning 2 × 2. Strain OD31 expressing GFP–KNL-2 was imaged in the same manner without the 1.5× auxiliary magnification.

Biological Sources
NCBI Organism Classification
Caenorhabditis elegans
Cell Type
embryo
Cellular Component
nuclear chromosome
gamma tubulin
Attribution
Names
Paul S. Maddox
Francie Hyndman
Joost Monen
Karen Oegema
Arshad Desai
Published
J Cell Biol. 2007 Mar 12;176(6):757-63. Epub 2007 Mar 5.
Pubmed
17339379
Citation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi:10.7295/W9CIL28774
Archival Resource Key (ARK)
ark:/b7295/w9cil28774
Grouping This image is part of a group.
Sample Preparation
Methods
living tissue
Relation To Intact Cell
whole mounted tissue
Dimensions
Spatial Axis Image Size Pixel Size
X 750px ——
Y 251px ——
Time 10 seconds 96